Door hanger



S. GICZEWSKI. DOOR HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED APILVZO, 1921 1,403,764, Patented Jan. 17, 1922.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SIGMUND GICZEWSKI, OF HAMMOND, INDIANA.

DOOR HANGER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be'it known that LjSiGMUND GIczEwsKr, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Hammond, in the county of Lake and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Door Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to car doors and particularly to means'for holding the car door against movement when it iseither in an open or'a closed position, so that 'unauthorized persons cannot manipulate. the door or impair it by moving it backward and forward.

An object of thisinvention is to produce a door primarily for box/carsulthough, of course, it may be used in connection with other closures.

A further object of this invention is to produce means for suspending a sliding door, whereby, one of the suspending ele ments may be utilized as a means for looking it, thus making it possible to produce an efficient lock having comparatively few parts of inexpensive construction.

lVith the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in'the details of construction, and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this application wherein like characters denote corresponding parts in the several. views, and in whicha Figure 1 illustrates a viewin elevation of a fragment of a box car with a device embodying the invention. applied thereto;

Figure 2 illustrates a sectional view on an enlarged scale on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Figure 3 illustrates a sectional view on the line 33 of Fig. l;

Fig. l illustrates an enlarged detail of the locking mechanism; and

Fig. 5 illustrates a perspective view of the rail. j

In these drawings, 10 denotes a fragment of a box car having the usual door opening be presently explained, and it has an anchor Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Jan, 17,

Application filed April 20, 1921. Serial No. 462,852.

ing flange 16 with apertures 17 to receive the faste'nings 18 such as bolts or rivets, by which the track is supported, and the said track has a depending flange 19 which operates as a guide for the upper edge of the door.

Hanger brackets 20 and 21 are anchored to the door near its upper edge and they project 'thereabove. The bracket 20 has a wheel 22 rotatablymounted on it, and the configuration of this bracket is well shown in Fig. 3. The bracket 21 is of the same general contour as the bracket 20, but the offset portion 23 thereof has an aperture 24 therethrough, through which an operating element 25 such as a rod may project. The door may also be provided with .a guice 26 in which the operating element 25'll'lf1fx' slide. A toothed wheel 2? is. rotatably mounted in the bracket 21 and it acts as a combined traction or supporting wheel and one of the lockin elements by which the door is held at di ercnt positions of adjustment, it being understood that the teeth of the wheel will enter the apertures or seats 15 in the rail as it rotates during the opening and closing of the door. The fact that the teeth of the wheel are successively seated in the recesses renters it possible to prevent movement of the door it the wheel is prevented-from rotating. To that end, a dog 29 is pivotally mounted in the bracket 21 in such position that its nose will engage the teeth of the wheel and prevent rotation of the wheel so long as the dog is in said engagement. Means are provided for swinging the dog on its pivot into and out of operative relation to the wheel, and to that end, the member 25 is connected to the dog so that by thrusting the said member upwardly, the dog is moved out of engagement with the wheel, whereas when it ,is released or permitted to move downwardly, the said toothed wheel will be locked against rotation, and hence, the door cannot be moved.

As a cans for operating the membsectional handle 30 has 1-. 'nt one rtion can be moved with relation to the other, and this sectional handle has one end oscillatable on a cc of the door. in tl e ntion, one part o i an apertured loo 0 receive s e 3 r after the sectional handle has been appliedto the staple, and thus the sectional handle will be held against movement. Of course in 'this connection, a car seal or lock may be employed as a substitute for the fastening 35, and hence, When a car door is once locked, it cannot be released except through the manipulation of the handle. When a person: is desirous of opening or closing the door, the removal of the sectional handle from the staple and an upward oscillation of the said handle, Will result in lifting the dog from engagement with the teeth of the Wheel and the door can then be moved'to an open or closed position by pulling on the handle, after which the said sectional handle may be re-set in the locked position to hold the door against movement and of course this operation may be repeated as desired.

I claim: V 'f 1. In a lock for sliding doors,-a track having seats'therein, a door having brackets-extending thereabove; a toothed Wheel rotatably mounted with relation to one of the brackets and engaging the seats of the track, a dogpivotally mounted on the said bracket and adapted to engage the teeth of the Wheel for holding it in adjusted position, a member Vconnected to the dog for operating the same,

a sectional handle pivotally mounted on the door to Which the said dog operating memher is connected, and means for holding the sectional handle against movement When the dog is in engagement with a tooth of the Wheell V 1 2 In aclosure for car doors and the like, a track having seats therein, a door having brackets, Wheels rotatablv mounted in the brackets and adapted to travel on thetrack,

' nectechmean's for pivoting the sectional handle in operative relation to the door, the said sectionalhandle having an aperture therein a staple to Which the apertured handle is applied, and means extending through the i staple for locking against movement.

sIGMUND GICZEWSKL the sectional handle 

